Valuable News – 2019/07/08

The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX or BSD systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the Internet I just put it here.

Today the amount information that we get using various information streams is at massive overload. Thus one needs to focus only on what is important without the need to grep(1) the Internet everyday. Hence the idea of providing such information ‘bulk’ as I already do that grep(1).

UNIX

FreeBSD Turns 26.
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/791609/c9fb51359883f096/

Porting Wine to amd64 on NetBSD – First Evaluation Report.
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/porting_wine_to_amd64_on

Quick Steps to Run i3wm on OpenBSD.
http://w00t.eu.org/m/station.html

FreeBSD Call for 2019Q2 Quarterly Status Reports.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2019-July/054827.html

FreeBSD Updates FUSE from Protocol 7.8 to 7.23 with New Functionality and Performance Improvements.
https://twitter.com/ed_maste/status/1146081918028591104
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20805

FreeBSD bhyve Snapshot Save and Restore.
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19495

FreeBSD Adds Protection Against Unlimited Atomic Operations from Userland.
https://twitter.com/ed_maste/status/1146090442158759938
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20772

FreeBSD Security Advisories 2019-07.
FreeBSD-SA-19:09.iconv.asc
FreeBSD-SA-19:10.ufs.asc
FreeBSD-SA-19:11.cd_ioctl.asc
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:09.iconv.asc
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:10.ufs.asc
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:11.cd_ioctl.asc

DragonFly BSD Refactors Scheduler Weightings.
http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2019-May/718947.html
http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2019-May/718955.html

OPNsense 19.1.10 Released.
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=13380.0

NetBSD Forking Code Support in ptrace(2).
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/forking_code_support_in_ptrace

OpenBSD is Now My Workstation.
https://sogubsys.com/openbsd-is-now-my-workstation-operating-system/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20344766
https://lobste.rs/s/m8cxke/openbsd_is_now_my_workstation

Replacing (Silently) Failing Disk in ZFS Pool.
https://imil.net/blog/2019/07/02/Replacing-a-silently-failing-disk-in-a-ZFS-pool/

BSD Now 305 – Changing Face of Unix.
https://www.bsdnow.tv/305

Web Application Firewall (WAF) for Website Protection with OPNsense.
https://medium.com/@jccwbb/website-protection-with-opnsense-3586a529d487

How Much Has UNIX Changed?
https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/episode-5-notes-how-much-has-unix-changed

Running Arch Linux using OpenBSD vmd(8).
https://www.tumfatig.net/20190705/running-arch-linux-using-openbsd-vmd8/

FreeBSD Call for Testing – Package Base – Round 2.
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-pkgbase/2019-July/000466.html

Speedy Desktop Apps with Glade/GTK/Rust.
https://nora.codes/tutorial/speedy-desktop-apps-with-gtk-and-rust/

OpenBSD Amsterdam – rdist(1) – when Ansible is Too Much.
https://chargen.one/obsdams/rdist-1-when-ansible-is-too-much

DigitalOcean – Install FAMP (FreeBSD/Apache/MySQL/PHP (FAMP) on 12.0-RELEASE.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-an-apache-mysql-and-php-famp-stack-on-freebsd-12-0

FreeBSD Restructures cache_handle_range for 9% Time Reduce on Amazon EC2 a1.2xlarge Instance.
https://twitter.com/FreeBSDHelp/status/1147769563460694017
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=349768

In Other BSDs for 2019/07/06.
https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/07/06/23152.html

OpenBSD Community goes Platinum for 2019!
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20190707065226
https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/contributors.html

Per Project PostgreSQL.
https://jamey.thesharps.us/2019/05/29/per-project-postgres/

NetBSD LLDB – Watchpoints/XSTATE in ptrace()/Core Dumps.
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/lldb_watchpoints_xstate_in_ptrace

The meli Pre Alpha Release.
https://meli.delivery/posts/2019-06-15-pre-alpha.html

Hardware

AMD Unveils Radeon Pro WX 3200 – Professional Graphics Card for $200.
https://www.anandtech.com/print/14609/amd-unveils-radeon-pro-wx-3200-a-professional-graphics-card-for-sub200

SilverStone CS280 Review – 8 x 2.5 Disk Bay DIY NAS Build.
https://www.servethehome.com/silverstone-cs280-review-8-bay-asrock-rack-diy-nas-build/

Mini STX Build from Scratch Using Aluminum Plates.
https://www.fanlesstech.com/2019/07/from-scratch-build-mini-stx.html

ASRock 4X4 Box-R1000 – Ryzen Based 0.87-Liter PC – 110x119x68mm.
https://www.anandtech.com/print/14615/asrocks-4×4-boxr1000-a-ryzenbased-087liter-pc

AMD Adjusts Launch Price of Radeon RX 5700 Series.
https://www.anandtech.com/print/14616/amd-adjusts-launch-price-of-radeon-rx-5700-series-50-for-anniversary-xt-20-for-regular

How PINE64 is Creating Community to Compete with Raspberry Pi.
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/developers-how-pine64-is-creating-a-community-to-compete-with-raspberry-pis/

AMD 3rd Generation Ryzen (ZEN 2) Deep Dive Review – 3700X and 3900X Raising the Bar.
https://www.anandtech.com/print/14605/the-and-ryzen-3700x-3900x-review-raising-the-bar

AMD Radeon RX 5700 (XT) Review – Navi Renews Competition in Midrange Market.
https://www.anandtech.com/print/14618/the-amd-radeon-rx-5700-xt-rx-5700-review

AMD ZEN 2 Microarchitecture Analysis – Ryzen 3000 and EPYC Rome.
https://www.anandtech.com/print/14525/amd-zen-2-microarchitecture-analysis-ryzen-3000-and-epyc-rome

Life

Why Remote Work is not Going Away Anytime Soon.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90318974/the-rise-of-remote-working-will-continue

China Forces Tourists to Install Text Stealing Malware at its Border.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7xgame/at-chinese-border-tourists-forced-to-install-a-text-stealing-piece-of-malware

Other

Company Tracking Reach – Proportion of Web Traffic Tracked Their Trackers.
https://whotracks.me/companies/reach-chart.html

Google Youtube Ban on Hacking Techniques Threatens to Shut Down All of Infosec Content.
https://boingboing.net/2019/07/03/nobus-r-us.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20346865
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20350306

GitLab Ends Support for MySQL in 12.1.
Just use PostgreSQL.
https://about.gitlab.com/2019/06/27/removing-mysql-support/

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